I can't believe the way people behave in hotels. I propose that every time guests check into a hotel, they be given a Code of Conduct by which they will agree to abide. Within this code would be items like:

1. No blasting TV volume, especially after 10:00 PM
2. No letting guest room or stairway doors slam, at anytime!
3. If arriving to your room late with other guests, keep your voices down
4. No screaming while on the phone, whether cell or hotel phone
5. Keep the pacing in the room to a minimum; consider guests in the room beneath you
6. If you have children staying with you, you need to be with them when they are in places like the pool, jacuzzi or business center

The consequences for guests not abiding by these rules should be immediate and terminal execution.

There, that feels better. Thanks again Flyertalk! ^

If you can't stand it you can always ask for another room. Maybe you should try it sometimes. @:-)

I used to just suffer in silence and keep my mouth shut. Not anymore. Last time another guest was playing the TV too loud (on another floor, no less), I marched right on down to the front desk and complained. The clerk took care of it immediately, and I got to sleep.

Why should I ask for another room because someone else is being rude and inconsiderate? Nobody complains anymore about public rude behavior and so it just grows and grows.

Sorry items 2,3 & 5 aren't "courtesy" they are controlling.

Absofreakinglutely right on. ^

Ha. My husband and I were given a room beneath (we think) a soccer team- running back and forth well past 11 PM. Calls to the room went unanswered. We talked to the front desk and she said the hotel was full and she couldn't move us. Liar. I called the 800 number (it was a Courtyard) and they said it was "wide open". It was only then that we were given another room.

Wow! I just learned a new trick. Thanks for that. Love it!

M8

I gotta tell this story on etiquette...

I was in Lafayette, LA on business. A group of about four old ladies and one old man, I mean in their 80's, were cutting up in the hallways. It was like 1:00am. Worse than teen-agers out on a Saturday night. They were in the hotel with some tour group. I called the front desk, they did nothing. I called again, they told the old folks to quiet down and go to their rooms and go to sleep. They old folks stayed out in the hallway.

I finally got fed up with this, so I put my clothes on, opened my door and told them to quiet down, because I had to work the next day in order fund the Social Security checks they were getting and spending on their vacations.

The old ladies just chuckled. The old-man told me to shut-up, that he was in his 80's, fought in WW2, didn't have many years left to live and that he was going to do whatever the hell he wanted to till his day of death.

I was stunned and had no comeback . So I just went back to my room and turned on the TV till they left. I was tired the next day from lack of sleep. Funny thing is the old guy and two of the women were at breakfast the next morning. The old man greeted me with a smile and said, "good morning sonny-boy!"

I don't think they had even gone to sleep, though I am sure they went to bed

M8

"I finally got fed up with this, so I put my clothes on, opened my door and told them to quiet dow",Next time don't bother to put your clothes on-works like a charm

LMAO!

tonypct,

You wouldn't happen to have been paying attention to a little Minnesota Viking incident or two recently, would you?

They're the one causing the disturbance. THEY are the ones that should be required to move.

Get over yourself.

LOL No, I was nowhere near that party boat. Of course if I was, I would have demonstrated a lot more common sense.

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